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(No Model.)

M. D. 'PLATNER.

(JAKE MIXER.

N0. 359,887. Patented Mar. 22, 1887.

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MARSHAL D. PLATN ER, OF VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA TERRITORY.

CAKE-MIXER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,887, dated March 22, 1887.

Serial No. 212,057. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARSHAL D. PLATNER, of Virginia City, in the county of Madison and Territory of Montana, have invented a new and Improved Cake-Mixer,ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to cake-mixers, and has for its object to improve the construction of mixers as used with cake or other batter and thick liquids, wherein through the use of mixers and beatersproj eeted to revolve around a central red at various angles thereto and different distances therefrom, the heaters working at the bottom and the mixers through the entire mass,a greater agitation isproduced and a more thorough mixture accomplished.

It consists in the construction and combination of the various parts,as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forining a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is an elevation of my mixer; Fig. 2, a bottom view thereof, and Fig. 3 a central transverse section through line av mot Fig. 1.

A. designates a handle provided with a rod, B, entered centrally through the lower portion thereof, and secured thereto by means of nuts a a, adapted to extend vertically downward from said handle. A socket, Z), is secured to the end of the rod B, adapted to hold a cork, b, the purpose of which will be hereinafter set forth.

A short horizontal shaft, 0, held in any suitable manner to turn in a metal plate (not shown) attached to one side of the handle A, about the center of its curved lower end,is provided with a toothed wheel,D,keyed thereon, and a crank-arm, (2, whereby said shaft and toothed wheel are revolved. The toothed wheel I) thus attached and rotated is adapted to mesh with a horizontal bevel-gear, E, se-

cured upon the metal ring 6 by means of look nutf, the said ring e,with its accompanying gear and nnt,being held .to turn upon the rod B, by a collar,F,immediately beneath the ring asupporting the same, and clamped rigidly to the said rod 13 through the medium of a suitable set-screw, f. Three armsfi, H, and K,

are fastened to the said ring 6 at equidistance thereon, wliiclncnrving slightly therefrom,are extended preferably parallel with the rod B, to be secured to another lower ring,L, encir; cling the said rod B, above the center thereof. From the latter point of attachment the arms G, H, and K terminate in more or less outwardly-curved forked ends,constitutiug mixers g g, h h, and 1c it, which, extending at va rious angles downward around the rod- B, and at different distances therefronnare provided with varied inclined heaters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The forked end or mixer g of the arm G and the mixer k of the arm K have their edges turned outwardly to throw the batter when revolved toward the center, and their heaters 6 and 1 are turned in at slightly different angles.

The forked ends or mixers g of the arm G and the mixers k of the arm K are constructed with comparatively straight edges, their beaters 2 and 5 being turned inwardly to impart, in process of revolution, a whip like stroke to the batter.

The forked ends or mixers h hof the arm H. are formed with their edges turned in, which has a tendency to th row the batter out, while their heaters 3 and have an inward inclination to stir and agitate the batter at the bottom the reverse of the mixers 5 h above them when rotated.

The heaters all have their edges inclined, downward the more readily to lift the batter from the bottom of the receptacle.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the heaters cover a large radius thoroughly. The agitation of the liquid or batter to be mixed is varied and great,owing to the different inclination and angles of the several mixers and heaters, whereby the liquid or butter is whipped, thrown, and beaten in every direction throughout the entire mass.

The cork b at the bottom of the rod 13 is purposed to rest upon the bottom of a glass, china, or other easily destructible vessel employed as a receptacle for the batter.

While this beater is especially adapted foruse in mixing cake or other thick batter, it is equally applicable for use with eggs, paperhangers paste, ice-cream, and may in small 5 families be used as asubstitute for a churn.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a cake or liquid 10 mixer having a handler and central rod, 13, of the arms G H K, revolved substantially as described, provided with the forked ends 9 g, h h, and 7c is, projecting downward around said rod at different angles thereto and distances 15 therefrom, having integral therewith down Wardly-inelined heaters l, 2, 3, 4:, 5, and 6, extending in opposite directions at right angles to said forked ends, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose herein set 20 forth.

5,and 6, all arranged and operated substanw tially as shown and described, and for the purposes herein set forth;

MARSHAL "D. PLATNER,

\Vitnesscs:

THEOPHILUS MUFFLY, ALFRED E. GLOYD. 

